It was the first of four or five gatherings intended to celebrate Canadian medal winners at Canada House, a.k.a the Bacchus Pub, at the Commonwealth Games.

Attendance was thin. We haven't won many medals.

Oh, it's not every day at Canada House that one of our athletes walks in the door with six medals, five of them gold, hung around her neck.

There was certainly cause for celebration, although it was in clear violation of the local liquor laws that Patricia Bezzoubenko, 17, was in the pub sporting all that bling.

“Yes, that is true,” said chef de mission Chantel Peticlerc.

“But I will personally make sure she goes back home to the village early.”

While those gathered celebrated the rhythmic gymnast’s achievement and a scattering of others who have completed their competition, there was little going on out there Sunday.

Canada managed to manufacture two medals on the day.

Hilary Caldwell of White Rock, B.C., in swimming and Remi Pelletier of Longueuil, Que., in cycling, both captured bronze.

Canada came to these Games with an 'A' team for a change, proclaiming it to be a turnaround year from the disaster in Delhi, India, where 26 gold and 76 medals were the lowest numbers for Canada since they were known as the British Empire Games and then the British Commonwealth Games.

Team Canuck fell to fourth place in total medal count, a long way from its first-place finish at Edmonton 1978.

Canadian officials were projecting third place in both categories with one, Commonwealth Games CEO Brian MacPherson, predicting a 90-plus medal haul.

When the Bacchus Pub closed here Sunday night, Canada was in a three-way tie for sixth place in the total medal count.

Australia had 73, England 57, Scotland 30, India 22, New Zealand 21, with South Africa, Wales and Canada back with 18.

“Sometimes the schedule is set-up for the host country to get off to a good start,” said Canadian general manager Scott Stevenson.

Scotland has certainly done that.

“We can't predict what Scotland is going to do next, but they're having a great start.”

But Stevenson says relax, Canada.

“We're in good shape. We're really pleased,” he said as he enjoyed the scene at the Bacchus Pub, er, Canada House.

“We look at medals we expect to win and our people have performed very well. There's been the odd little miss here and there but more often than not, we're getting the medals we expect.

“The other thing is that we've had some real pleasant surprises and you've heard about them here tonight.

“This is a really young judo team and we didn't necessarily expect those guys to win as many as they did.

“In Rhythmic we knew that Patricia would win some medals but I'm not sure we expected six.

“We've had some up at shooting which were pleasant surprises.

“So when you look at it, we're pretty much where we expected to be.

“When you look at it, we've got some great sports coming up that we're generally very strong in. We think the gap will get narrowed.

“For us, these Games are back-loaded. Scotland is the other way around. Having swimming and judo up front are their two strong sports.

“Steady as she goes. We're still projecting third place.”

Chef de missing Chantal Peticlerc said Canadian athletes wearing medals around their necks will be walking in to the Bacchus Pub in larger numbers for the nights planned during the rest of these Games.